[Scenario] Asteroid Relaunch Challenge

[SirJodelstein]

Most of us have probably already tried to capture an asteroid and put it into LKO or even land it at the KSC, and there have been some interesting challenges around precision landing etc.

BUT as far as i know, noone has tried to put an asteroid back into LKO from the surface of Kerbin.

Here is a challenge for all engineers, lets see what you can come up with:

Asteroid Relaunch Challenge

This scenario file (put it into saves/scenarios) has five asteroids of varying sizes (from a 33t B-class potato to a massive 3000t E-class space boulder) conveniently placed in immediate KSC vicinity.

The goal of this challenge is to launch one of them back into LKO (periapsis > 75km) by whatever means you can come up with (other than cheating, duh!).

Pulling a relaunch even the smallest of the five asteroids is quite rewarding in itself, but here is a scoring system so you can compete with others:

Your score will be calculated by payload and part efficiency: score = asteroid mass - part count/20 - vessel mass/20 (at launch from VAB/SPH, as displayed by the map screen).

If you launch the rooftop asteroid, you will get a 50% score bonus.

Mods go into a seperate leaderboard, Autopilot (MechJeb etc) entries can be entered into the stock competition.

[Hattivat]

Robbaz did this a while ago:

The other vidoes from the "pet asteroid" series are recommended too, they are hilarious.